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l910.1316313. A PatentedApri|8.1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES R. LONG, 1OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO LONGI &

BROTHERS, OF SAME FLAOE. if

IMPROVEMENT IN KNocK-oowN" CHAIRS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,61 3, dated April 8, 1873; application led February 21, 1873. I

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, UHAELEs It. LONG, of

Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and venience in packing them in parts for shipment and storage and then setting them up readily, I propose to bevel the ends of the back rail of the seat-frame on an angle of forty-tive degrees or thereabout, and form a haltround notch in eachend titting the tenon of the side stretchers, and arrange them so that said tenons extend through and by said notches to enter the holes for them in the posts of the back of the cha-ir, in which I make oblique notches for the ends of the back rail coinciding with the holes for the tenons of the side stretchers, so that when the seat- 'rame is put together, and the seat-bottoni woven in it, the back rail and the side stretchers can be put together with the back posts by entering them in the notches and holes together from the front; and I tit the back rail and the side stretchers together and glue them, and connect the side and front stretchers to the front posts in the ordinary way, and then weave the seat-bottom on, which forms an L-shaped structure which nests together compactly for shipping. I also connect the back posts together in any ordinary approved wayby the back cross-pieces, and thus have them in convenient shape for pack ing compactly in bundles, by which I have the principal part of the chair in two bundles-say, a dozen in eachand with these I pack the requisite number of side rounds or sticks for connecting the front and back posts-say, forty-eight-for a dozen chairs, and thus have everything necessary for setting'them up in compact form for shipping.

Figure 1 is a horizontal section of a chair constructed according to my invention, the section being taken on t-he line m w of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the liney y of Fig. l. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a section of a back post, showing the arrangement oi' the hole for the tenon for-the side stretcher and the notch for the back rail;

and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of one of the back posts and one end of the back rail on the line x .r of Fig. 2, enlarged.

A is the back rail; B, the back posts; C, the side stretchers; D, the front posts and the front stretchers. I connect the front posts D together by the front stretchers E and the rounds or connecting-sticks F in the ordinary wa-y. I also connect the side stretchers to said posts in the ordinary way, and also conneet the back posts B by the cross-bars H and the connecting-stick I 5 but, for shipping, I do not connect the back to the seat-frame, nor to the iront posts, and do not attach the side-connecting sticks K; but to provide for completing the seat and readily connecting it when the chair is set up, I bevel the ends of the back rail A, as shown at L, form the halfround notches M in the beveled ends, fIt the tenons N of the side stretchers C therein with the shoulders against the side of the side rail, glue them together, and form the seatbottom on the said rail and the side and front stretchers, as represented in the drawing, the said side and front stretchers being connected to the front posts; and to allow of putting the chair up readily after the seat is thus made, I form the oblique notches P in the back posts in connection with the holes for the tenons N, so that the back rail and tenons of the side stretchers will enter their places in the back posts together, and at the same time the said cross-pieces K are fitted in `the posts. The joints thus formed may be glued together, or the glue joints of the cross-pieces K with the posts may be relied on for holding the chair together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The back rail A with bevel L and haltround notches M, the stretchers 0 with tenons N, and the posts B with oblique notches I), combined to form a joint in a knocledown chair, :as and for the purpose described. i

OHAS. R. LONG.

Witnesses: p

W. C. Loire, I. N. LONG. 

